Archibald lampman biography
•
Archibald Lampman
Canadian poet (–99)
Archibald Lampman FRSC | |
|---|---|
Lampman in | |
| Born | ()17 November Morpeth, Canada West |
| Died | 10 February () (aged&#;37) Ottawa, Ontario |
| Occupation | Civil servant |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Citizenship | British subject |
| Genre | poetry |
| Literary movement | Confederation Poets |
| Notable works | Among the Millet and Other Poems, At the Long Sault and Other Poems, Lyrics of Earth |
| Notable awards | FRSC |
| Spouse | Maude Playter |
| Relatives | Hilda Katherine Ross(niece) |
Archibald LampmanFRSC (17 November &#; 10 February ) was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets."[1]The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in English."[2]
Lampman is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets, a group which also i
•
Archibald Lampman was born in in a small by called Morpeth, close to the shores of Lake Erie in Canada. His father was an Anglican priest who moved the family when Archie was six years old to Gore&#;s Landing on Rice Lake, Ontario but the young boy soon fell ill with a severe rheumatic fever which damaged his heart and left him lame for a long period of time.
Despite his poor health he got through school and graduated from Trinity College in Toronto. It was here that he first became inspired to write poetry, having marvelled over a borrowed copy of a newly published book of poems by Charles G.D. robert called Orion and Other Poems. His own poetry that was published in the college magazine and his work later appeared in such prestigious magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Harper&#;s, and Scribner&#;s.
Having graduated from college he wanted to teach but gave up on it after a year or so, becoming a lowly paid clerk working for the brev Office in Ottawa for the rest of his short
•
LAMPMAN, ARCHIBALD, poet and postal clerk; b. 17 Nov. in Morpeth, Upper Canada, first child and only son of Archibald Lampman and Susannah Charlotte Gesner; d. 10 Feb. in Ottawa.
Archibald Lampman is commonly identified with a group of early Canadian poets which included William Bliss Carman*, Charles George Douglas Roberts*, and Duncan Campbell Scott*. They have been variously referred to as the “group of the sixties” or “poets of the Confederation.” Born within a year or two of one another, –62, they all grew up in the benign shadow of an act of the British parliament that gave the British North American provinces the status of a nation in Nature figured prominently in their work, and a vague transcendentalism, but they were not otherwise closely linked. Lampman was intimate only with Scott, and it was this friendship which illuminated his life between his coming to Ottawa in and his early death in his 38th year.
The Morpeth that Lamp